Los Angeles's thriving chamber music ecosystem is inextricable from its history. Plus: What Gustavo Dudamel's exit from the L.A. Phil means, how to navigate the art fair bonanza, and more in this week's newsletter.
Karen Bass declared an emergency on her first day as Los Angeles mayor. In that declaration, she joins many mayors past, including Richard Riordan, Tom Bradley and Fletcher Bowron.
In the mid-1800s, public clocks served as type of civic authority as they centralized the town's time while introducing the idea of organizing days around the hours and minutes of clock time.